#Chapter 265 – The Steps

Ella We dash across the square, my hand clasped in Cora’s, adrenaline moving my legs for me even despite the face that I don’t have the strength for it. As we run, debris and smoke fly around us. The humans are pressing their advantage, shelling the center of the city with abandon after they heard the prince is dead. They know Sinclair must be regrouping, so they’re doing as much destruction as they can while they can. My eyes are on the temple steps ahead of me but for a moment – just a moment – my mind turns to my mate. He is the one responsible for the prince’s death – I know it for a certainty, without having to ask. He wouldn’t let anyone else take the final blow – it was vengeance and it was his. But the prince – that photo of him on the board room table – it had looked like it was in the palace – My eyes flick to the palace building to my right – does that mean – is Sinclair in there? We’re close to the temple steps now, just feet from them, really. But I have to